In the evening, Octavier called Weiss, and she drove herself into the city in the style of an atypical female driver, stopping at the door of a rather upscale hotel. Seeing this heroic female officer, the waitress of the hotel was very polite, and Weiss stood at the door and looked at it, and said to Octavier: "I don't have any money with me today!" ”

The female officer was noncommittal, she looked at her watch and said to Weiss: "We came a little early, you still have about half an hour, do you want to buy a gift for your female star, and get a photo to come back and sign by the way?" Her photos and postcards are now available in any gift shop or newsstand in bookstores in Liberty City. ”

Half an hour? Weiss scratched his head. In Lorraine, he really didn't have any concept of money anymore, because there was no place for him to spend money, and there, a place that was in ruins and needed to be rebuilt, it was really useless to have money. When he joined General Punk's guerrilla warfare command, he continued his previous wartime military position with the rank of guerrilla colonel, which was between the regular army and the reserve, and the salary package was basically the same as that of a colonel in the regular army. Although Weiss did not care much about the material treatment, the service of the guerrilla warfare command at that time explained to him in detail and opened a deposit account for him to receive allowances. But since he went to Lorraine, that account has been left behind by him. This kind of military account does not require a passbook, and can be withdrawn directly from the bank with the military ID card or the military introduction letter.

Weiss looked left and right, and in such a bustling neighborhood, there were banks not far away. He ran as fast as he could, was given priority at the soldier's window, and took a sum of money sufficient to cover the cost of gifts and dinner, according to the pre-war price level. However, when he went to the gift shop to buy something, he found that the price of the goods here seemed to be an extra zero, which made him a little frightened: the destructive power of war on the normal economic order is really terrible!

I bought a small makeshift gift, took the photo of the female star, and rushed back to the hotel from Cong. Octavir was already sitting on the second floor, and across from her sat a curly-haired girl in a blue top hat, who was wearing a beautiful royal blue dress and rose-red lipstick, and her skin looked extraordinarily fair.

"I'm so sorry! Looks like I'm a little late. Weiss took off his military hat and greeted the two ladies politely.

Gone, Gunevere was not at all surprised, and beckoned Weiss to sit down on the chair next to them: "Sit down!" We ordered a mushroom steak and a baked taro cake for you, and I don't know if it suits your appetite. ”

"But we think it's definitely enough." Octavier added.

"Thank you so much!" Weiss hurriedly replied, "After a day of training, my stomach is already hungry. ”

Gunnivel looked at Weiss very seriously: "You look much stronger than before the war, and you have the rigidity of that kind of soldier sculpture, which is very good!" ”

Weiss's changes are largely due to the devastation of war, and the changes in this old friend in front of him are more like the blooming of a bud. I remember that on Bella's birthday, she was as innocent as a beautiful lily, and now although she wears exquisite makeup, a jeweled necklace and fur gloves, she is not contaminated with that dusty atmosphere.

"Your singing voice is like heaven." Weiss touched his nose, "It's a pity, I only heard it for the first time today, it's "Looking Up at the Stars", right?" ”

Gunevere smiled and didn't speak, but Octavier said beside her, "Ah, I can't believe that someone in the Union Army only heard your song today, forgive him!" After all, he is operating in the enemy-occupied area, where there are no conditions to listen to your songs. Although the trenches on the front line are very difficult, it is still a kind of happiness for the soldiers to have your singing voice with you every day! ”

"I feel very honored that my singing can make people forget the pain and forget the fear and hatred of war for a while." Gunnevere said.

"yes!" "That song has a magical power to make us forget our pain, I think." Only a person with a pure heart can sing such a song with a purifying function! ”

"Actually, Bella did a good job! She was very brave and not afraid to do the surgery, unlike when I sometimes saw blood and sometimes I was nervous and almost fainted. I think everyone has their own strengths, as long as they can show it, it is the best arrangement to be meaningful to the country, right? Because each of us has our own strengths, we sit here, and then tomorrow we have to do our own thing. So let's toast to a better tomorrow! ”

Octavier raised his glass: "Yes, tomorrow will be better!" ”

Weiss smiled, his expression a little bitter, what will happen tomorrow? If it was in peacetime, many things could be determined, step-by-step, simple and boring, but now looking back, how comfortable it is. In times of war, no one knows where you will be in the next second, what you will do, who you will kill!

"I've heard that the war is coming to an end." Putting down her glass, Gunnevere whispered.

"This rumor has been rumored many times, and who knows if it's true!" Octavier didn't seem strange at all, but Weiss looked dazed: What's the situation, isn't the two sides fighting fiercely? Why is it necessary to talk about peace all of a sudden.

Sensing Weiss's anomaly, Octavier explained, "It's a good thing that you've been behind enemy lines for too long and haven't been exposed to this strange news. False and real, true and false, no one knows what the truth is. If the war were over, there would be no need for us to go on this special mission. ”

"If the war is over, I should also stop this kind of busy labor and military condolences, sing for the soldiers who have returned from the whirlwind in the Freedom Square, and then go back to school to continue to be my music teacher, how good it is!" Gunnevere said.

"Do you feel sorry? Now you're a star, people ask you for autographs everywhere you go, and when you go back to school, you're only in front of a bunch of ignorant students. Octavir asked her sister.

"Yes! Of course I do. I love that quiet and uneventful life, and if I could, I would like to go back to those little places like Somsonas to teach a group of simple students and watch them grow! Gunevere deliberately looked at Weiss when he said this, Somnas is his hometown, and it is also Bella's hometown, but it is now unrecognizable, even if it is rebuilt, it will never be able to return to its original state, this is war!

"What would you do if the war was over?" Weiss asked Octavier, "Continue to be a female officer?" ”

Octavier thought for a while: "I have never seriously thought about this issue, I always feel that I have been a soldier all my life, I like the feeling of being a soldier, if the war stops and there is no need for so many soldiers, then I will try to stay in the military school and continue to be an instructor, if there are not so many instructors, I can go to the military library as an administrator." ”

Hearing this, Weiss couldn't help but feel that she was suffering from phobias such as marital phobia and social phobia, and was unwilling to return to normal society. With her background, it should be easy to be a strong woman in the business world and a good wife and mother in a wealthy family, but she wants to choose the hardest job, be a professional soldier, train every day, and take the barracks as her home. Why is that?

"Ask us all about our future, what about you, the pride of the Somsonas—the pride of the Lorraine, huh?" Octavier smiled and said, "Actually, the moment you entered the military academy, you know? I have a strange feeling about you. That feeling, I always feel that you are a difficult guy, but I didn't expect it to be when I looked away. Your achievements are far beyond my imagination, and if the war is over, you should be able to continue to stay in the army on your terms. Will you? ”

Weiss thought for a moment and replied, "No." ”

"And what are you going to do?" Octavier asked curiously.

Weiss smiled: "I want to go back to my hometown, Lorraine. Do something that's good for the people, do something that can change the status quo. Maybe I'll go into politics, maybe I'll be an entrepreneur, maybe I'll start a research institute, anything is possible. ”

"I think that there is only one thing you want to do when you say so much, and that is the one that shines in your eyes when you speak." Octavier said firmly.

"When?" Weiss asked.

Octavir was reluctant to answer directly: "You know it in your own heart! ”

"Okay!" Weiss shrugged his shoulders, "Then the second glass of wine, toast us in the future!" ”

When the glass was raised, in the face of the two beauties with beautiful faces and moons, each with their own merits, Weiss fell into his own thoughts. What is the future you are looking forward to, and when the war stops, will you really return to Lorraine willingly and follow your inner thoughts to do something extraordinary? What is the best for you, is the concept that transcends time and space, is it the technology that is ahead of this era, or is it to spend the rest of your life in a dull way, as if everything is possible!

The setting of this hotel is good and the food is delicious. The three of them were having dinner, and the dining room was bustling with people, and no one noticed that someone came in quickly through the door, walked to a cubicle, and said something to his companions, and the people around him suddenly had different expressions and gossips. It didn't take long for someone to come from outside the door, and the table he went to began to be hotly discussed. The sound seemed to have a strange contagion, and more and more people in the hotel were walking around, leaving their seats, talking to each other as if something important was going on.

Gunnevere went to the bathroom during the feast, and when she came back she seemed to meet someone she knew, and after talking, she hurried back to the table, and said mysteriously to Weiss and Octavier: "There is news from the front, an offer of peace from the Normans. It's really amazing! These people who do not stop until they have reached their goal will actually take the initiative to propose peace, it seems that something must have happened in the Norman Empire. ”

Weiss was taken aback, but Octavier on the side was still so calm, she put down the cutlery in her hand, wiped her lips with a napkin, and whispered, "If that's the case, our operation may really be stranded." Anyway, leave it to fate! The sooner the war ended, the fewer casualties. That's a good thing for the big picture. ”

After giving a small gift and asking for an autographed photo, Weiss was a little absent-minded. As he drove back to the station with Octavier, he finally couldn't help but ask, what the hell is going on, and the Normans are really talking to us about an armistice?

Octavier stared intently ahead, a little wine made her face redden, looking even more delicate, but the cold sword eyebrows and resolute eyes made others dare not think otherwise.

"You killed the enemy's crown prince in Slane, the succession to the throne has undergone a major change, and their emperor has not been in good health in recent years, so it is normal for something to happen to the power class of the Norman Empire that is not known to outsiders. I heard that some of the princes have already taken the lead, and if the new ruler takes power, he must need a stable situation to help him stabilize the newly acquired rights in his hands, or the old emperor is not dead, and they have no way to get the real power, so they put their main energy back to the country. In this case, they are not willing to fight us. On the northern front, they have made peace with the Kingdom of Wessex, and it is not too difficult to make peace with us. Octavier said unhurriedly.

Could it be that this war began somewhere and where it ended? Weiss thought to himself.

"Occupying neutral countries, defeating the Kingdom of Wessex, and seizing some of their territory and resources should not be the real ambition of the Norman Empire, and they will come back sooner or later, so if I were the supreme commander, I would not make peace with them so easily, but the real commander will not care about the gains and losses in military affairs like I do, but should look at the overall situation...... This war also made the people of the Romance Empire suffer greatly, and they were not willing to fight any more. ”

"But that's just our hearsay." Weiss, "The Normans were as cunning, bloodthirsty, and murderous as the beasts of the Monamolin Mountains, and their greed was a primitive instinct, and peace was not the best outcome for them." ”

Octavir was silent for a moment before turning his head and glancing at him: "You're right, so I've always wanted to go to the Norman Empire to see in person, to see their people, to see what their country is like. This question has been bothering me for a long time, and we hope that there will be such an opportunity, but now if there is a truce, the operation will definitely be postponed or canceled. ”

The latter halfway through, the two of them went their separate ways, neither of them said anything, and when they arrived at the station, Weiss returned to his room, and Octavier was nowhere to be found. Early the next morning, the quartermaster brought Weiss his equipment, the weapons and equipment distributed by the special forces of the federal army are the best in the army, all the new firearms are given priority to them, and even some weapons that are not suitable for mass production are also given priority to the special forces, so Weiss can easily get the guys who take advantage of them here, and the training of the special forces is much stricter than that of ordinary troops, and the combat level of officers and soldiers is much stronger than that of ordinary troops. Although he was appointed as the second commander of the operation, in the daily training, Weiss also needs to participate in strict military training like ordinary officers, and after a day of training, he has the feeling of first arriving at the Gaston Military Academy: some are hard, some are tired, and some are tired, but they can continue to learn, progress, and constantly enhance themselves, and everything is positive.

There was no Octavel to see that day, and Weiss was not only curious about where she had gone. That night, the camp had passed the lights-out signal, Weiss suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, and quickly got up and came to the door, and when he opened the door, he saw that the female officer was standing quietly outside the door, looking not very good, but he couldn't tell what it felt.

"The time of the operation is indefinitely delayed, and it is uncertain when it will be restarted. The general told us to be on standby at all times and keep training. ”

"In that case, we're really going to have a truce with the Normans." Weiss speculated.

"The information I have received is that there is a ceasefire on the front line, after all, we have lost more than 100,000 soldiers and many more wounded in the last two months. Such losses have exceeded the expectations of the military leadership, and President Leibold has lost his original determination to continue the war. It's a quagmire, and no one wants to sink into it anymore. Octavir said with some frustration.

"In the Fries, our flying units do not have the advantages of the imagination?" Weiss raised his own doubts from a tactical point of view.

Octavir shook his head: "Even such an ace as Nikolai was injured, and when he returned to the rear, what could the pilots at the front line do?" I heard that the Normans fought stubbornly, and they brought in the latest weapons and the most powerful troops, and our flying troops did their best, but suffered heavy losses. Taking a step back, even if we were able to capture the Kingdom of Fries and continue our advance towards the Norman Empire, how many casualties would we have to bear? ”

Weiss nodded helplessly: "If this is the case, then maybe the truce is the most acceptable result for both of us at the moment." After all, life is priceless, and if this country has shed blood, how can there be a future? ”

Octavier hesitated for a moment: "If you propose to leave now, I think the general should be understandable, you can go back to Lorraine and rebuild your home with your family and friends, because the wait here may be far away." ”

Weiss smiled: "Why, my instructor, do you think that I am not suitable for continuing training here?" Through today's training, I found that I am still far behind, and I hope to be your student again and learn more military techniques and techniques from you...... If you don't mind! ”

"Don't mind, of course not." Octavir replied, "However, I don't think your heart is in war, you are a man of a kind heart, and you have an active mind, and you are suitable for a career outside of the army." So, if the war is really over, you can leave the army and do what you want. ”

"Actually, what you said is really something that bothers me. You see, I went through three years of hard study at the Barston Military Academy, and then went to the Dale Fair Senior Staff Academy, so to speak, since I became an adult, all my studies and efforts have been put in the military field, and the experiences and tests I have endured in the war since then feel that I am paving the way for professional soldiers, leaving the army, it seems to be a half-way choice, not to mention others, even I feel sorry for myself! Westein was honest about what he really thought.

"Many times, we are trapped by worldly eyes and thinking, and we dare not take that deviant step, so some people will miss their lovers, and some people will miss their dreams. In fact, compared to those lives that withered in the war, we are lucky enough, since God has given us the opportunity to live, what reason is there not to follow our inner feelings and do what we want to do? ”